Improvement in hooks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD wEIss, or EEooKLYN, NEw YORK.

|MPRQVEMENT IN Hooks.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 136,114, dated February18,1873.

city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of N ewYork, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks; andV I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art tomake and use the saine, reference beingrhad to the accompanying drawingforming part of this specification, in which drawing- Figure 1represents a side view of my hook. Fig. is a rear view of the same. Fig.3 is a front view of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a hookmade of wire and bent so that a singleloop is formed at the end of the shank ot' the hook, while said shank istwisted to prevent the loop from spreading open when the same isexposedto a strain.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a hook, which is made of asingle piece of metal wire, that is doubled upso that the bight of thewire forms the tip of the hook, while the two ends of the wire are bentin such a manner as to form a loop, a, at the end of the shank of thehook. The ends of the wire meet at the center of the loop, as shown inFig. 2, and it' a tape is drawn through the become disengaged. Thisdifliculty I have overcome by putting a twist, b, in the shank of thehook, as shown in Figs. l and 2. By this twist the loop is rmly closedand its ends are prevented from spreading open.

This hook is intended particularly for necktie shields, with which it isconnected by an elastic tape passed through the loop a. As this tape issubjected to a strain each time the neck-tie is put on or taken ofi',the loop has been liable to spread open, and it was found necessaryT toconnect the ends of the wire by solder. The operation of soldering,however, requires much time, and after all it was not sufficient toproduce the desired ei'ect. twist b which I use for locking the loop canbe put in while the hook is being formed, and the ends of the wire areeffectually prevented from spreading open.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a wire hook, A, provided with a singleloop, a, which is locked by a twist, b, substantially as shown anddescribed.

This specilication signed by nie this 23d January, 1873.

. RICHARD WEISS.

Witnesses W. HAUFF, E. F. KAsTENHUBER.

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